Chapter 2 How can land requisition not be paid
Wanli, Taichang, Tianqi, Chongzhen, Hongguang, Longwu, Yongli....
Wei Liangchen, who was an online history writer in his previous life, was stunned, he was very familiar with the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and now it is the thirty-seventh year of Wanli, which means that there are still more than 30 years before the Manchurians enter the customs.
If he couldn't change his fate, Wei Liangchen was sure that he would probably be able to witness the Manchu iron hooves roaring from outside the pass and become a slave under Manchu's rule.
This is obviously unacceptable to Wei Liangchen.
Destiny must change, if not for the big change in more than 30 years, but for yourself.
But what you have learned in your previous life is useless in this era, either you can become a scholar or a peasant, and there are only these two paths in front of the good minister.
There is a specialization in the art industry, and the good minister thinks that he is really not the material for farming. But if he can't go to school, how can he change his fate? Could it be that he nested in the township, waiting for the chaos during the Chongzhen period, and then unveiled the rod, learning from Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to be a "big guy" who can change history?
No, it's been too long, Liangchen denied this idea without hesitation, he really couldn't wait that long.
But what is he going to do?
The thoughtful Liangchen wandered aimlessly around the village, full of surprised eyes along the way, because the Wei family's junior had disappeared from the eyes of the villagers for three months. Now it suddenly pops up, and it's really uncomfortable. Wei Liangchen's disdainful gaze made Wei Liangchen react, it seems that he has been really unbearable in the hearts of the villagers in the past two years.
When passing by a few women, Liangchen vaguely heard a woman say that he and his second uncle have the same virtue, this is the first time that Liangchen is so old, and he has heard someone talk about his second uncle. He was a little curious, and wanted to go up and inquire about it, but when the women saw him coming, they quickly dispersed.
Liangchen was very embarrassed, and secretly wondered if it was possible that Wei Liangchen in the past still had the evil behavior of molesting the women of the good family, otherwise how could these women be so disgusted with him.
Of course, not all the villagers didn't want to mess with Liangchen, and two of their own elders stopped when they saw Liangchen on the road, asked him about his injuries with concern, and then told Liangchen that his father and eldest brother were in the field at the east end of the village.
Liangchen thanked the two elders of his own family, and he had nothing to do anyway, so he went straight to the east of the village.
The village where the Wei family is located is called Lishu Village, and as the name suggests, there are many pear trees growing in the village. In the autumn season, the villagers will pick the pears they harvest in the city to sell, and the money from the sale is used to supplement their livelihood, which is also a "side business" in the local area.
There is a river in the east of the village, and there are 100 acres of land on the river beach, which is the best land in the whole Lishu Village, and Wei Liangchen's family has two acres and eight points of land here, and this land is also the best land for his family. If there is no land, relying on the other few acres of thin fields, I am afraid that Wei Jinde will not be able to provide a few years of social studies for good ministers.
When the good minister reached the field, he saw his father and brother from a distance spreading dung, and the other holding a hoe and hoeing weed. Seeing Liangchen coming, Wei Liangqing was very surprised, and immediately put down the hoe and called his father. Wei Jinde turned his head in response, saw the little son standing there looking at him, hurriedly put down the scoop, and came to the edge of the field.
"What are you here to do? This injury is not yet healed, but the gentleman has instructed that you can't go to the ground, you kid, you were disobedient yesterday? If your leg is not good, you will be lame in the future..."
As a father, Wei Jinde was very dissatisfied with his youngest son's recklessness, especially when he saw his youngest son go so far, he was really anxious and angry. He was very worried that Liangchen's legs had three long legs, and if he was lame, how would he be able to live in the future. The eldest son has never married a daughter-in-law at such an old age, and the younger son is lame again, and he can't please his daughter-in-law, so won't his old Wei family be extinct!
Wei Liangqing also came over, very dissatisfied with his brother's recklessness, and followed his father to accuse him. Liangchen hung his head slightly, letting his father and brother scold him, he knew that his father and brother would talk about him because they cared about him. If you were someone else, how would you care if his injury was good or not, and whether his leg would fall into sequelae.
At this moment, Liangchen felt a warmth, although the two men in front of him were not actually his blood relatives, but now that he is Wei Liangchen, then they are his relatives. This is a fact, and it cannot be changed.
"Dad, my injuries are out of the way, they're almost fine." Liangchen said in a low voice.
The youngest son's "dad" made Wei Jinde a little in a trance, because the youngest son refused to study, and mixed with scoundrels all day long, Wei Jinde beat him and scolded him, but the youngest son couldn't listen to it, and repeatedly argued and scolded his father, and the relationship between father and son was very tense. After all, Liangchen hasn't called Wei Jinde a dad for more than a year, especially after being injured, he hasn't said a word to his father. Whatever happened, Wei Liangqing, who was his brother, relayed it for him.
"It's not wrong to be careful, but listen to you, or to Langzhong?" Wei Jinde bent down in a muffled voice and plucked a handful of hay and spread it on the ground, allowing Liangchen to sit and talk.
"My son's injury, my son knows about it, if he can't move around, his son won't dare to come out." Liangchen sat down on the ground honestly.
Seeing this, Wei Jinde was even more surprised, because the youngest son's personality is very strong, he said that he would face east, and his son would definitely face west. Today, the sun is really coming out of the west, first opening his mouth to call his father, and then sitting down honestly, is it possible that this is not only a good injury, but also a good temperament?
Wei Liangqing didn't think as much as his father, and when he saw that his younger brother was really fine, he asked Liangchen to sit and rest, and he and his father would go home together after finishing their work.
Liangchen didn't want to go home either, and there was nothing to do when he went back left and right, so he waited at the edge of the field for his father and eldest brother to go home together. After more than half an hour, Wei Jinde finished applying the dung, carried two empty buckets to wash in the ditch, and then asked Liangqing to help his younger brother go home together.
When I passed by the entrance of the village, I saw Li Zheng and a few people talking about something. Liangchen looked at those people and looked familiar, as if they were people from the sixth room in the county. Many villagers were watching, and many of them looked anxious and worried.
"Dad, what's wrong?" Liangqing was a little surprised, it was not the time to collect taxes, what did the people of the sixth room do in the village.
Wei Jinde didn't know what was going on, and Liangchen was also a little curious, so the father and son squeezed into the crowd to find out. The appearance of the Wei family's junior made many villagers look sideways, but compared with this major event in the county, the matter of the Wei family's junior is not worth mentioning.
Soon, the news came out from the people of Liufang, saying that the county was going to expropriate the 100 acres of good land in Lishu Village as farmland. As soon as the news spread, it immediately spread throughout Lishu Village, and the villagers who knew about it were so shocked that they couldn't say a word, and many people were even more frightened and lost their proportions, as if the sky was falling.
Wei Jinde was also so frightened that he didn't say anything for a long time, Liangqing squatted on the edge of the field, as if he had taken dumb medicine, and only knew that he was stunned and looked at his paddy field.
Liangchen didn't understand what was going on at first, but when he understood, he knew that the big thing was not good.
It turns out that this so-called Zhuangtian is Guantian. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, once the land is requisitioned by the government as official land, then the original owner of the land will become the tenant of the official land. The tenants who rent the official land, that is, they can eat their stomachs in the good year, but when it comes to the disaster year, they are really green and yellow, and most of them have to borrow money to live, otherwise they can only sell their sons and daughters. And once you borrow a loan, the final result is to sell your sons and daughters.
In a word, once the 100 acres of good land in Lishu Village are expropriated as farmland, it means that the villagers of Lishu Village lose their best land. At first, Liangchen thought that the government would give some compensation for the land expropriation, so he comforted his father and eldest brother, but his father said that the government had no compensation. When Liangchen heard this, he was immediately anxious, how could he not give money for land acquisition! If it doesn't work, you have to sue them!
"What's the matter? The county said that the land was requisitioned by the imperial court to King Fu, so can we sue King Fu? Liangqing said in a muffled voice.
"Fu Wang?"
Liangchen was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "Zhu Changxun? ”
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